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6:15pm Nov 07, 2019

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Western Individualism May Have Roots In The Medieval Church's Obsession With Incest

by Rhitu Chatterjee

Researchers combed Vatican archives to find records of how ancient church policies restricting whom one could marry shaped Western values and family structures today.
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5:29pm Jun 03, 2019

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Why Octopuses Might Be The Next Lab Rats

by Nell Greenfieldboyce

Move over, fruit flies, rats and zebrafish. Squid and octopuses have elaborate brains and behaviors, and scientists say studying them in the laboratory could yield important biological insights.
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6:03pm Feb 07, 2019

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Living Near Your Grandmother Has Evolutionary Benefits

by Jonathan Lambert

Humans are evolutionary oddballs for living long past our reproductive prime. New research explains how grandmothers might be the reason why.
Reece Wykes for NPR

1:20pm Jun 22, 2018

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Animated History: The Evolution Of Parenting

by John Poole

A new theory claims that shared child care and food were the original secrets of our species' success.
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5:53pm Jun 07, 2018

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Why Grandmothers May Hold The Key To Human Evolution

by John Poole

What made us human might have had less to do with men out hunting, and a lot more to do with what was going on at home — with grandmas and babies.

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5:14pm May 02, 2018

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How Did Birds Lose Their Teeth And Get Their Beaks? Study Offers Clues

by Rebecca Hersher

Modern birds are dinosaurs without toothy jaws, and with bigger brains. Newly published research fills in some of the missing links in their evolution.
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2:19pm Oct 04, 2017

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Would Aliens Look Like Us?

by Jonathan Losos

Though natural selection might have sculpted a well-adapted species on another planet, they wouldn't look like us, says guest blogger Jonathan Losos.
Gokce Saracoglu / NPR

7:00am Aug 20, 2017

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In Turkey, Schools Will Stop Teaching Evolution This Fall

When Turkish children head back to school, something will be missing from their textbooks: any mention of evolution. The government is phasing in what it calls a values-based curriculum.
4:52pm Aug 09, 2017

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Discovery Of Ancient Skull Sheds Light On Ape Ancestry

by Keri Brown

Researchers say they’ve found a 13 million-year-old fossil in the Turkana Basin of northern Kenya that sheds new light on the evolution of apes.

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9:27am Jul 31, 2017

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New Florida Law Lets Residents Challenge School Textbooks

by Greg Allen

The new bill was pushed by a conservative group critical of the way evolution, climate change and government were being taught in Florida schools.

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9:27am Mar 28, 2017

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What Gave Some Primates Bigger Brains? A Fruit-Filled Diet

by Jessica Boddy

A new study suggests that diet had a big influence in driving the evolution of brain size in primates. Monkeys who thrive on fruit have bigger brains than their plant eating neighbors.
Courtney Fitzpatrick

1:00pm Feb 17, 2017

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Investigating The Purpose Of Female Beauty In Animals

Researchers from Duke university are learning that female beauty in the animal world may be less about mating, and more about survival.

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